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AG Holder Says Drug Cases Down Because Less Focus on Smaller Offenders
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal prosecutors handled fewer drug prosecutions last year because of a new approach to handling smaller non-violent offenders, the Los Angeles Times reports. Attorney General Eric Holder said at a National Press Club address that prosecutions for drug cases fell 6% last year. Holder said the feds are placing more focus…
FBI May Lose Critical Surveillance Abilities Because of NSA Controversy
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s ability to covertly collect “books, papers, documents, and other items” with a court order is at risk. The Washington Times reports that the Section 215 of the Patriot Act is set to expire in June, and it’s unclear whether lawmakers will “renew it, reform it or let it expire.”…
Delaware Voice: Comey’s ‘History-Making Speech’ Reveals Important Truths
Leland Ware Delaware Voice On Feb. 12, FBI Director James B. Comey made what will be remembered as a history-making speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the speech, “Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race,” Comey said, “With the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, the…
Texas Judge Blocks President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s immigration plans have been placed on hold by a federal judge in Texas so that states have time to argue their case against the president’s controversial executive action. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen blocked the plan with a preliminary injunction, ABC News reports. The judge said the injunction was…
FBI Investigates 7-Decade-Old Lynching of 2 Black Couples in Georgia
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It was a brutal lynching even by Georgia’s standards. On July 25, 1946, a white mob tied up a black couple in their 20s and shot them 60 times. The notorious incident became known as the Moore’s Ford Bridge lynching. No one has been prosecuted in the case. But The Guardian…
Border Patrol Agents Advised They May Let Drunken Drivers Loose
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been advised they are under no obligation to arrest drunken drivers and will face no consequences for letting the suspects go, CBS5 reports. A training memo that has been circulating among agents reminded them that they have no legal authority to arrest someone for breaking…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: FBI Director’s Speech on Race Is Two-Way Street
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial Board During a widely lauded speech at Georgetown University last week, FBI Director James B. Comey proved that he’s no J. Edgar Hoover. Instead of glossing over unpleasant truths about the relationship between minority communities and the police, Mr. Comey seized on the opportunity to acknowledge the reality of racial bias…
Secret Service Agents Spent Average of Just 25 Minutes Training in 2014
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com One reason the Secret Service is making so many embarrassing blunders may have something to do with the lack of training. The Fiscal Times reports that the Secret Service’s uniformed officers trained for an average of just 25 minutes in fiscal 2013, a significant decline over previous years The Secret Service…